http://www.hulu.com/watch/440811
After viewing, answer both questions below (5 sentences each minimum).
There are two ways of looking at identity: Internal (how you see yourself), and External(how others see you)
1) How does IDENTITY apply to the Twilight Zone episode The Eye of the Beholder? Discuss your viewpoint using details from the show.
2) How do we treat people that are different? Is the show that different from how we are as a society?
In addition to the story details, consider these characters in your essay:
Ms. Tyler (lady with bandages on)
Doctor
Nurse
President (speaking on the TV)
Mr. Smith (guy at the end that takes her to the place where there are others like her)
Identity apply to the Twilight Zone episode The Eye of the Beholder. The Internal identity isMs. Tyler didn't like the way she looked because people were saying that she would never look pretty or the same again. And they we're saying that Ms. Tyler went through 11 surgery story get better and take off the bandages on her head, Ms. Tyler was upset because of her face it hadn't change the last time.
ReplyDeleteThe External identity is the nurses were going to separate Ms. Tyler from the others that didn't like they way she looked. The nurses was probably going to kill her if she looked the same when she took the bandages. When she took the bandages off she went crazy and she ran because she looked ugly that's what others thought of her. Then Ms. Tyler was in this room and she saw a guy named Mr. Smith and he help her two fit in and go to a good place to get help.
identity applies to the twilight zone by the way the population thought that beauty is supposed to look a certain way. like the way mrs tyler saw herself as she was ugly and she needs to change her appearance. she also said if they couldn't fix her appearance that they should put her down.
ReplyDeletethe way the population viewed the lady as she was not normal and she needed to be fixed.the lady tried 11 different surgeries so she can try and look normal. they also said that she needed to be separated if the surgeries did not succeed.
Identity applies to the episode because people were treating Ms. Tyler different just because she looked different. The doctor and the nurses were not exactly treating her different, they were just being annoyed of her complaining and not being the most kind about it, they were pretty much just arguing with her over it. Ms. Tyler treated herself like she was the ugliest person on earth since people were screaming at her just because she looked different. Mr. Smith treated her just like a normal person because he was just like her because he was not an alien-mutant-pig-duck person thingy and neither was Ms. Tyler.
ReplyDeleteMost people here on earth are pretty kind when it comes to ugliness because if we see someone ugly we do not scream at them unlike the people who screamed at Ms. Tyler. That show is different from earth as a society because the presidents/government leaders dont tell us we have to look the same unlike the president of the alien-mutant-pig-duck planet who said that people need to look the same. What I am pretty much saying is that people should not judge other people by the looks of their faces which they don’t on earth but do on the alien-mutant-pig-duck planet.
1) How does IDENTITY apply to the Twilight Zone episode The Eye of the Beholder? In the video “The Eye of the Beholder” the nurse told Ms. Tyler she would probably get the bandages off in a couple of weeks but it could even been months before she gets them off and she would just have to ask the doctor. The doctor later came in and told Ms. Tyler if she wasn’t normal they could put her in a segregated place. Ms. Tyler asked him if she wasn’t normal if he could somehow get rid of her and doctor replied and said that there are ways to exterminate people like her. Ms. Tyler asked the doctor if she could take off the bandages but it would be a risky procedure. They later took off the bandages and saw Ms. Tyler was the same and was trying to sedate her to calm her down but she ran through the hallways and heard the governor was talking about how all the different people like Ms. Tyler was to be separated. Ms. Tyler ran into Mr. Smith and she was shocked he was like her. Mr. Smith was there to pick her up and take her to the segregated place but she had to pack her bags.
ReplyDelete2) How do we treat people that are different? Is the show that different from how we are as a society? I don’t think society is completely like that but in some states they act like that towards people that look different. Alabama is one of those states that do that, they separate people with autism or dyslexia and many other diseases and mental disabilities. simply because they might harm someone or might not be able to function in a normal environment. Many of them are separated into different rooms and the ones that are in wheelchairs are just pushed around all day by their teacher or placed in a corner in the back of a classroom. I’m not sure about other states but Wisconsin is one place where they don’t do that and Alabama is.
How I think about the Twilight Zone. Ms tyler was normal like us but the rest of the country was different like pigs. The people who live there think she a outcast and has to move to a segregated neighborhood with their kind. But she wanted to not be different than everyone else.
ReplyDeleteWe judge people based on your appearance. Let say if you're not in the designer jeans or something. You're not part of the popular crow we might make fun of you. You might see people like they are not your friends look so its different.
Question 2.) We treat people differently by criticizing them on how they look and how they act to something. We also bully people and call them mean names. The show is different from society because in the show I think it is different because the pig people just stared at Ms.Tyler as she was freaking out, and running through the halls where she saw the president speaking on the tv. He was talking about conformity and saying that the people that look like Ms.Tyler should be put somewhere else in their society. As she was running the pig people was chasing after her and she ran into a different room.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 1.) The identity applies to the Twilight Zone (The Eye of the Beholder) by showing Ms.Tyler that got surgery on her face, and has bandages on her face. As they were taking the bandages off her face she looked beautiful, and she ran away from them, and they said that they were going to put a needle in her if she didn’t freak out. When she ran away from them the pig people, they chased after her. When they chased after her the guy doctor took her to a room where Mr.Smith was in. Mr.Smith said that they were going to a segregation room of people just like her.
There are two kinds of ways people see beauty, Internal and External. Their perspectives are usually different depending on the person and how they see beauty. Which sadly is mostly external which is how you look on the outside. I mostly see beauty in personality and what the person does for fun/hobby. I’m not saint I don’t completely think it’s all internal but atleast I don’t only judge on just looks but more over all personality. Sounds clique and all but it is true, a lot of people judge mostly on the inside than the outside.
ReplyDeleteFrom my standpoint I think that the society in the Twilight episode was realistic but at the same time very unrealistic. That is because of the fact on how they treat the non normal looking people, they put non normal people in places isolated from society. In our society we don’t isolate them we criticize them. That the common case not the ones that are very far fetched ones. For example Hitler with the Jews or The kids at Camp crystal lake in the 1950’s that drowned Jason Voorhees for being different.
Miss Tyler for example is the Jason Voorhees of this story, she is repulsive according to their society. Even though to people in our society she looks relativistically good when comes to our terms of how most people see beauty. The Doctor is one of the only people in the story that feels sympathy for Miss Tyler and doesn’t see her as a person that is hideous. The nurse shows signs of sympathy for Miss Tyler in the beginning of the story when she hears her out before injecting her medicine. Than she says and I quote “If I had a face like that I would bury myself six feet under.” So that shows a sign that she feels bad that she has to look hideous accordingly to their standards. The president is kind of antagonist of the story because he wants the ugly people (according to him) to be removed from their society. Than there's Mr Smith who knows what miss Tyler is going through because he too is also a ugly person according to their society and brings miss Tyler to his villages where people like her live and tells her a quote that goes “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.”